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swigged

/swɪɡd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
  2. To suck.
  3. To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data